{"id":10136,"date":"2026-07-13T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:31:45","slug":"time-for-class-2026-highlights-the-intersection-of-ai-integrated-assessment-and-student-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/time-for-class-2026-highlights-the-intersection-of-ai-integrated-assessment-and-student-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for Class 2026 Highlights the Intersection of AI-Integrated Assessment and Student Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty have always had to decide what kind of student work evidences learning. They develop research papers, exams, lab reports, problem sets, discussion posts, and presentations that ask students to demonstrate reasoning, application, synthesis, or judgment. AI has been making those assessment design choices more challenging because students can now produce work in ways that may hide how much they understood, how they used course concepts, or where they struggled.<\/p>\n

In Tyton Partners\u2019 Time for Class 2026<\/em><\/a>, an annual report on digital teaching and learning trends in higher education, assessment design is the theme at the nexus of how AI is influencing teaching and learning. Subtitled \u201cThat AI Tipping Point,\u201d the 2026 edition is the first year in which more than half of students, faculty, and administrators all say they are using AI at least weekly. The report shows that 47 percent of faculty are modifying assessment design because of AI.<\/p>\n

The 2026 edition of Time for Class drew on national surveys fielded in April and May 2026 with responses from more than 300 administrators, 1,500 instructors, and 1,500 students from two- and four-year public and private institutions. In addition to assessment, the report features findings on human connection in digital learning, the top challenges students face, belonging and retention, career-connected learning, and institutional AI strategy and investment priorities.<\/p>\n

Another major topic in Time for Class 2026, says Hadley Dorn, Senior Principal and Chief of Staff at Tyton Partners and one of the co-authors of the report, is the impact AI is having on student engagement. She describes how the technology makes it easier for students to complete work without engaging deeply, which is related to, but not exactly identical to, concerns about academic integrity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeing faculty articulate that their perception of student cheating is higher than it’s ever been in the history of this survey,\u201d Dorn says. \u201cAnd we’re seeing concerns that students are not leaning into the critical thinking elements of learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day-to-day impact of this AI tipping point is showing up in changing assessment practices where some faculty, but not all, says Dorn, \u201cgo beyond their historical methods and think more deeply about how to engage students in a way that motivates them.\u201d<\/p>\n